Liu Xiao

Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).

Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in the AI Inference Group, focusing on natural language processing, large language models, and inference technologies, with a mission to advance the systematic deployment of research from fundamental algorithms to real-world applications. He received both his bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology, with his doctoral dissertation awarded the 2023 Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation Award by the Chinese Information Processing Society (CIPS). He has published over 40 papers in top international conferences and journals in natural language processing and machine learning. His research has been recognized with the runner-up for the Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2024 and has been applied in core products such as Microsoft Bing Search. He also serves as an Area Chair for leading international conferences including ACL, ICML, NeurIPS, and EMNLP.